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and corrupt. more words from donald trump and these are directed at his own party and its nominating process. the republican frontrunner heads to upstate new york blasts the delegate system in cleveland. that is something we heard from him at the huge rally in albany. he expects hillary clinton to be the nominee despite being in his words, guilty as hell, of mishandling her classified e-mails. let's bring in cnn's sara murray to shed some light on all this. >> reporter: good morning, john and michelle. donald trump is not backing down on his criticism of the republican nominating process. he stumbled in the delegate wrangling in colorado and louisiana. speaking here in albany, new york, to a crowd of thousands, he suggested to them the system is rigged. >> so we have a rigged system. so in colorado, they were going

to vote. you saw what's happening in colorado. it's a fix because we thought we were having an election and a number of months ago, they decided to do it by, you know what, right? right? they said we'll do it by delegate. they said they would do it by delegate. isn't that nice? if i go to the voters of colorado, we win colorado. it's a crooked, crooked system. >> reporter: the reality is when donald trump was up against ted cruz in louisiana, he did win, but narrowly. only to see ted cruz able to out organize him behind the scenes in the state conventions. that is something the trump campaign is hoping to rectify with staff exchange. trump gave us a preview of the general election message. >> i don't think the e-mails will take her down because she's being protected by the

democrats. it would take anybody else down, but it will not take her down because she is protected by the democrats, which is a disgrace. she will have to live with that when she runs because everybody knows that she is guilty as hell, okay? her whole life has been a big, fat, beautiful lie. >> reporter: that shift hitting hillary clinton harder about the e-mail scandal and past is a strategic one for the trump campaign. they feel they are inching closer to be the nominee and they want to take on clinton in the general election. donald trump is making those headlines and rnc chairman reince priebus is firing back at the trump criticism over the delegate process. look at this tweet from him. priebus telling trump the rules were set last year. nothing mysterious. nothing new. the rules have not changed. the rules are the same. nothing different. >> he is saying they are the

same. >> move on. if an interview with usa today, donald trump is offering up choices for a running mate. john kasich, marco rubio, both on the list. they both say they have no interest in being vice president. so is wisconsin governor scott walker. he is on the list. he stopped by saying i literally just heard it in the car and laughed. it is interesting to hear that after what was said about me a couple weeks ago. >> let's talk about all of this. joining us is tom lobianco. he is in the washington bureau. the cnn town hall with john kasich. kasich was asked about whether or not he would be the vice president pick. listen to how kasich responds to the vp speculation. >> i'm not going to be anybody's vice president. i would be the worst vice

president the country ever saw, you know why? i'm not a vice president. i'm a president. >> you don't want to be second fiddle? >> it is not that. i'm running for the top job. if i don't get the top job, i'm still governor of ohio. >> that's what everyone says early on in the process if they would be vice president. the reason people are asking this question, why is john kasich still in it? is he angling to be a vp pick for ted cruz or donald trump? >> originally when he started this thing, kasich started this back in july. almost a year ago now. that was the question. the vp was the big one. there are so many candidates in there. jeb bush, scott walker up at the top of the field. maybe this is the guy who carries ohio and changes the map

a bit. now it's interesting. he could get the nomination. it is still a tough road for him. it is not easy. if trump can't clear that 1,237 or make it close enough to where the party officials feel and leaders feel they need to basically keep it from a contested convention, if kasich can get to a contested convention in cleveland, he has a really good shot at starting to maybe getting the nomination. it is a possibility. >> tom, what do you think donald trump is looking for in the vp pick? he put the names out there. is he trying to pull diversity? you think about kasich with trump. that seems almost too strange a mix. that match could not be made in heaven. what do you think he is going for here? this is something people are starting to talk about. >> sure. you know, you could argue some

partisan diversity there. you have trump and you have three establishment picks. walker, rubio and kasich he's floating. it's clear they don't really want any part of it. you can see where he needs some of that. he really needs to bring some of these folks back into the fold. he needs to assuage concerns. you have seen him doing this behind-the-scenes. he had the meeting with the republican party right before north dakota. and you know, you can see that they want to keep everyone in line. you can do that. you can do that. that's outreach. that is good partisan outreach. >> trump said he wants an insider for vp. you don't hear that often. >> withhat about sarah palin?

you are talking ideologically. you hear kasich talk about the religious freedom laws coming out. >> i read about this thing they did in mississippi where apparently you can deny somebody service because you're gay? what the hell are we doing in this country? >> he is talking a little more liberal there on the social side. right after he made that strong statement, he kept saying over and over again that well, you might disagree with a lifestyle. you might not feel that it's right. it really seems like he was starkly playing it both ways. did you notice that, tom? >> you know, it's classic split the party. this is sort of everything's pushed to the right, if you will, this cycle. you can't lose. he's in a weird spot. the establishment, you could argue will support him. a lot of the old establishment and moderate republicans will support him.

that's not enough to get him over the top. so you know it sounds like at the beginning of that answer is really his inclination. it seems how he really feels about it. you hear him hedging a bit. this is convention work. you know, it doesn't look like these guys are going to get to 1,237. it is possible trump could do it. if it goes contested, you need to swing blocks of delegates. you need to pull in states. you are fighting a lot of the battles you had in the caucuses and primaries. he needs to pull those folks in. you can't get to 1,237 with moderate. >> big race in new york. hillary clinton and bernie sanders facing off thursday night. we heard from someone we hadn't heard from in a while with the democrats last night. or maybe not depending on which interpretation.

vice president joe biden said something that made people's eyes pop a bit. >> this country's ready for a woman. there's no problem. we will be able to elect a woman in this country. >> when he said that, his aides tried to end the interview thinking joe biden was saying he wants a woman to be president. i wasn't necessarily talking about hillary clinton. he said it. >> why not throw everything out there now? why hold back? don't you think, tom, that seeing kasich out of a debate where he's sometimes lost in the crowd, when you have trump and cruz and all of their back and forth. here he is with his family. don't you think this was a much, much better scene for him? a better way to actually hear his voice on these issues? >> sure. you know, you heard the candidates say that. they love the town halls. they love the format. it presents them in a more human

fashion. what could be more humanizing than having your better half and your family there with you. you know, it is good for them. new york is a huge primary. that's the next big ticket we have coming up here. beyond the delegate battle behind the scene, you have actual primaries you have to win. we have california out there which could be a deciding factor. they still have to play to the voters here. these town halls are great opportunities for them. >> tom, thanks so much for being with us. i appreciate it. three-night cnn town hall event continues tonight. the trump family. donald trump and melania and ivanka on stage. tomorrow night is ted and heidi cruz. all live. all in new york. 9:00 p.m. each night on cnn. >> i would like to see a family feud break out during the town

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big cnn brooklyn debate. and a cnn exclusive. isis defectors share their stories with cnn. welcome back to "early start." i'm michelle kosinski. >> i'm john berman. this morning, rigged, crooked, corrupt. words from donald trump about the nominating process. he heads to upstate new york blasting the party's system of selecting delegates to cleveland. that was one big theme we heard from him overnight at a huge rally in albany. trump also had words for hillary clinton. saying he expects her to be the democratic nominee despite in his words, guilty as hell. let's bring in sara murray with the trump campaign. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump is not backing down on his criticism of the

republican delegate process. speaking here in albany to a crowd of thousands, he suggested to them, the system is rigged. >> so we have a rigged system. in colorado, they were going to vote. you saw what's happening in colorado. it's a fix because we thought we were having an election and a number of months ago they decided to do it by you know what, right? right? they said we'll do it by delegate. they said they would do it by delegate. isn't that nice? if i go to the voters of colorado, we win colorado. so it's a crooked, crooked system. >> reporter: the reality is when donald trump was up against ted cruz in louisiana, he did win, but only narrowly. only to see ted cruz able to out organize him behind the scenes in the state conventions. that is something the trump

campaign is hoping to rectify with staff exchange. trump gave us a preview of the general election message hitting hillary clinton from the stump here in new york. >> i don't think the e-mails will take her down because she is protected by the democrats. it would take anybody else down. it won't take her down because she is protected by the democrats. she will have to live with that when she runs because everybody knows that she is guilty as hell. everybody. her whole life has been a big, fat, beautiful lie. >> reporter: that shift hitting hillary clinton harder about the e-mail scandal and past is strategic for the campaign. they want to prepare to take on clinton in the general election. >> thank you, sara. you heard donald trump complaining about the delegate process. well, republican chairman reince priebus did not like it. he seemed to fire back at the

criticism. he went on twitter overnight. look at this. the rules were set last year, priebus wrote, nothing mysterious. the rules have not changed. nothing different. he said the same thing six times. seems to be hammering that point home. a new interview with usa today, trump is thinking ahead offering up a view possible choices for a running mate. he mentioned john kasich and marco rubio by name. both of those guys say they have no interest in being vice president to anybody. wisconsin governor scott walker also someone that donald trump mentioned. this is what scott walker said. i literally just heard about it in the car and laughed. it is interesting to hear after the things said about me a couple weeks ago. >> still smarting. joining us to assess all of this and the political battle field, is cnn political reporter tom lobianco live in our washington bureau.

good morning, tom. >> good morning. >> watching the town hall, it was a relief from what we have seen in the debates. no fighting. family present. teenagers in the room. nobody trying too hard. trying to sound presidential. this was personal. let's listen to what kasich's daughter said about him. >> he's just really godly and really fun and sometimes a little silly. he's really loving. he's always checking up on us. he's an honest man. yeah. i think. >> and he cares about everyone. >> nothing unexpected there. certainly. that's really a personal element to it. tom, could this help kasich at this point in the race? >> absolutely. you are down to three folks

right now. you got a real big contest coming up in new york. you have some big mid-atlantic contests yet to come. nothing's been decided yet. so anything you can do where it is personalizing and humanizing and adds depth. these are not just one dimensional people here. these are distinguished politicians with long careers. veteran businessmen. having the family on stage really gives a lot of depth. it goes beyond the mud slinging we so often see. it helps bring them out. it helps bring them out and talk more about what they're thinking. what's behind their policies. it's a great format. it eases them up a lot. you get a lot of nice quotes and thoughts. >> the candidates seem to love it. it is a break from the mud slinging. let's get back to the mud

slinging. donald trump complaining about the delegate routes. john kasich says he will use the rules to get to the convention. cruz campaigning in california. this is what he said about donald trump's complaints. >> you may have noticed that when donald loses he gets very unhappy. he yells and screams and stamps his foot. he curses and yells and insults anyone nearby. look, as we know in the state of california wine is something best served with cheese. >> that sounds like berman in the morning. >> you appreciate that ted cruz really does like cheese. i'm not making that up. ted cruz is a cheese lover. for him to bring out cheese is a

big move, tom. >> such knowledge. >> what about donald trump? he is attacking the delegate system. on the other hand, he clearly seems to have a little bit of a new focus. he is all in in new york with a hope that a big win in new york could right the ship a bit in the hunt for 1,237. >> he has to get to 1,237 before the convention. a contested convention does not look good for him. if he can lock that in beforehand, he will be good. he is likely to get the nomination. he needs to get above 50% in new york to make that happen. that's just the key benchmark here. you know it is interesting about cruz is the primary and the convention wranglers, people who have done this before, will tell you that there's the primary after the primary which are the

state conventions. the congressional district conventions where they are selecting the delegates. what is funny, trump doesn't show up for these, but cruz does. cruz did colorado last weekend and north dakota before the. he is doing wyoming this weekend. in person with the republican activists. a lot of these people are pretty dedicated to him. you don't see that as much with the trump and kasich delegates. but more so with cruz folks. that just really reinforces it. if trump cannot clear that 1,237, he is in troubled waters in the national convention. >> it seems the rhetoric is the headline every day. it ratchets up every day. the words get nastier. would you say, tom, this has officially gotten ugly? not just the republicans with the attack, but the democrats. if that is how it is now, what

will it look like in two or three months time? >> these conventions, both conventions will be big battles. very rarely does it get this close to the convention without having a presumptive nominee in place already. going back to trump talking about the walker, kasich, rubio as potential vp picks. you could see him try to go in and if he doesn't have the delegates he needs, trying to get them by picking off kasich or rubio. if he could cut a deal to get that to 1,237 by naming his vp before the convention. these are tactics from lincoln's era. this is stuff they used to be in 1948. the last time you had a really big contested republican convention. the same is true on the democratic side. this thing will be fought all the way to philadelphia. >> tom lobianco.

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he shot the ex-saints lineman after an argument broke out. an attorney for hayes. he claims his client was the victim of the hit-and-run and smith was the aggressor. we have more from jean casarez. >> reporter: cardell hayes is on a $1 million bail. the facts are system. we know that former football player will smith as his wife had dinner with friends in the french quarter in new orleans. they left the restaurant at 11:15 p.m. and police say it was about ten blocks away from the restaurant when a vehicle rammed into from the rear their mercedes benz suv. police say that words were exchanged, but say that what happened was that cardell hayes took a small gun from his vehicle and began to shoot multiple times will smith killing him at the scene. his wife was shot in the leg.

she was taken to the hospital. will smith was drafted in 2004 for the nfl. he played his entire career with the new orleans saints. he was actually with them when they won the super bowl in 2010. he had received knowledge he was going to be inducted this year into the new orleans saints hall of fame. john, michelle. jean, thank you. joining us is alison kosik. >> i'm seeing a lot of red arrows around the world. asian stocks lower. european markets are in the red. so are u.s. stock futures. stocks kicked off the week on a bad note. the dow lost 21 points. the s&p and nasdaq closed lower yesterday. that lower close for the s&p puts the index back in negative territory for the year. happy equal pay day. today marks how long into the year women need to work until earnings catch up to full-time

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an important cnn exclusive. two rugged former taliban fighters turned to isis and defected. now speaking only to cnn. they describe the terror group tactics as too brutal to handle and the isis promises to help ordinary afghans empty. i want to bring in nick paton walsh live from kabul. nick, you spoke to the men face-to-face. they have a fascinating story to tell. >> reporter: the men, former taliban fighters, killers themselves. when the taliban group under pressure, people came across the border from pakistan, hard and radical under the isis flag and said join us for face the consequences. they took that choice and soon saw that isis were after their own warped ideology and money and in their eyes, too brutal.

they describe the beheadings and how those who were relatives of fighters who died were not given up to the person's family to look after, but put in an isis camp. that was enough for the men to decide they chosen the wrong side. they defected and now working with the afghan government in the uprising program to get militants together to kick isis out. it is backed up by american fire power. isis are to some degree on the decline in the east of the country from where they were last year. because of drone attacks hitting them again and again. they are still there. they are popping up in your areas. it is staggering to see men like these two we interviewed, former taliban. once attacked by american air power, now hoping american air power will hit their villages because their homes have isis living in them and they want the

isis fighters dead. that shows you how chaotic the war has been here and isis is a distraction to the afghan forces. it is distracts the resources from the longer term fighting from the taliban who announced today the fighting season has begun. the warm summer months. it could get worse. john. >> so many shifting allegiances there. one of the significant developments is the fighting season as the taliban says has begun. nick, thanks. joining us for an early start on your money is alison kosik. >> it is looking like a rough start to the day. red arrows around the world. asian stocks closed lower. europe markets in the red and u.s. stock futures. stocks kicked off on a bad note. the dow lost 21 points. the s&p and nasdaq closed lower yesterday. you look at how the s&p did

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they earn rewards more quickly than customers who buy plain coffee. it is all about the dollar to get rewards. >> venti. alison, thank you. donald trump claims the rules are rigged. he doesn't like the delegate selection process. he is complaining about it. blasting the party hard. now blasting the party i'm not going to be neck's vice president. >> it's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system. >> when people vote against you, they're stealing the election. it's a really odd notion. >> they are too divisive, negative. very hard to turn negatives around. >> i am noticed under the bright spotlight bernie sanders has had trouble answering the questions.

>> secretary clinton and i have strong differences in opinion. >> new york values are not just good for new york. they're good for america. >> i will be damned if we will see the american dream die. former saints football player will smith gunned down. >> some guy looked frantic. things were escalating. good morning. welcome to your "new day", this tuesday, april 12th. now 6:00 in the east. the fix is in. donald trump insisting the republican party's delegate system is rigged. that's his word. why? because colorado awarded all of its delegates to cruz without a single vote being cast. cruz firing back accusing trump of whining. the biggest prediction yet, i will win it in three. that's ohio governor john kasich saying at a cnn town hall saying this race isn't going to be

decided until the convention and he will win it in the third round vote. sharpening attacking against each other two days ahead of the debate in brooklyn. we have this 2016 race covered the only way cnn can. >> they are the rules. you might not like the rules. you might attack the rules. but the state republican party set them last year. it doesn't mean donald trump is not going to attack them over and over again. >> it's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system. >> reporter: donald trump sounding off. >> it's a fix. they're going to do it by delegate. oh, isn't that nice? >> reporter: criticizing the delegate system in colorado after losing all 34 state delegates to cruz over the weekend. priebus take to go twitter